Miller, Melanie Randolph: Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution.(Book Review)

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Miller, Melanie Randolph Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution Dulles, VA: Potomac 284 pp., $30.00, ISBN 1-57488-786-6 Publication Date: December 2004

Recent scholarship has begun to undo both the neglect of and the overly critical attitude toward one of our important founding fathers, Gouverneur Morris, who wrote the final draft of the Constitution. Melanie Randolph Miller, an aeronautical engineer, lawyer, and historian who has taught at Ithaca College, has produced a detailed and highly favorable narrative of the most controversial part of his ...

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